Arduino 1.5 mentions support for Multiple uC architectures

Does this mean support for microcontrollers from other series such as Texas Instruments MSP430 too?

Sure, in theory. In fact, the multiple uC architecture has been building for a while in multiple places, and you can already get ports for MSP430 (Engergia: GitHub - energia/Energia: Fork of Arduino for the Texas Instruments LaunchPad's ), ARM (Maple: Maple | LeafLabs and Teensy3: PJRC Store and probably others), PIC32 (ChipKit: http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Catalog.cfm?NavPath=2,892&Cat=18 ) "Wiring" is also supposed to be multi-architecture.

These are all actually using forks of the Arduino IDE; not just libraries of similar core code...